Scholar killed in Kentucky capturing referred to as her mom

Secret Holt said when Bailey called her, all she could hear were voices in the background. Students returned to the high school Friday morning, ABC affiliate WKRN-TV in Nashville reported.

Ahead of their Sunday funerals, Bailey and Preston's family and friends spent time reflecting on their young lives and their final moments, including a phone call Bailey made to her mother after she was shot. He seemed "like a really good kid", she said, adding that he was quiet and kept to himself.

"We can't imagine what this small community is going through", Paynter said. Also Monday, a bullet grazed a 14-year-old boy in the parking lot of a New Orleans high school.

"This community doesn't have violence that most communities do". Parker's motives are still unknown, but a local prosecutor, Mark Blankenship, told Reuters in an email that the gunman apparently chose his targets at random.

The family of a teen who was killed during a shooting at a Kentucky high school earlier this week said they had their chance to say goodbye after rushing to the scene.

Kentucky schools would be able to designate "marshals" responsible for keeping a gun on campus in order to stop a mass shooting, under a new bill filed in the state legislature.

"God is lifting us and giving us this strength", Cope said. "How are we going to come together?" In nearby counties, students gathered in prayer circles before classes began Wednesday.

Standing alongside Gov.Matt Bevin Friday morning and speaking through tears, he asked for prayers. She is a former senior F.B.I. official and the co-author of a study of 160 active shooting incidents in the United States between 2000 and 2013.

Bailey Holt's family was in the audience. Both male victims are said to be in stable condition.

There have been 11 school shootings in the United States already this year.

Paducah Police have arrested a man accused of threatening a Paducah Tilghman student. Of those, 16 suffered gunshot wounds, while four sustained injuries while trying to escape, although exact details on how they were hurt weren't released.

Assistant Marshall County Attorney Jason Darnall said the preliminary charges for wounding the other classmates will be first-degree assault, which carries the same penalty. "We have no information to indicate that he had any particular target in mind".